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AUC Leads School-University Partnerships to Enhance Sustainability, Engagement in Public Schools

October 4, 2023

A new outreach initiative from AUC’s Middle East Institute of Higher Education is creating school-university partnerships that promote community engagement, empower public school students and foster sustainable development.

While planting trees at a public school in New Cairo last spring, mechanical engineering sophomore Hassan El Hassan met a seventh-grade girl from the school who blew his mind.

“She already knew coding languages that university sophomores and juniors haven’t touched,” he said. “My mindset about public school students immediately changed — I was inspired to help them succeed.

Read the full story in AUCToday magazine. 

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